Ouch

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 12/14/2018 at 11:44 • Filed to: None

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It’s been quite windy in Austin since yesterday and the portable basketball goal in our driveway blew over last night. I knew the base was leaking, but I hadn’t gotten around to topping it off. While it missed Mrs. Ttyymmnn’s Civic, it nailed the Odyssey right at the base of the driver side A pillar. I’m bummed, because after 15 years this is the only significant body damage, and it was entirely avoidable. Still, I’d rather it hit the Oddy than the Civic.

How long before that chipped paint starts to rust?

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 11:49

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hey looks like it didnt smash the windshield . that’s a win. If you live in a n area with a pick an pull type junk yard, I’d bet you can find a new beige fender for under 100 bucks. 

vicali > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 11:50

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Get some paint on there and it’ll match every other 15yr old family minivan..

or don’t..

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 11:51

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I say pound it out as best you feel like and get some touch up at the auto store.  With our weather and lack of road salt, I think rust will be held pretty much at bay.  Sorry, man.  That sucks balls.

facw > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 11:56

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That looks like about the best possible outcome. Seems like damage is mostly contained to that panel. I don’t imagine it will rust fast, but given the age of the van, finding a junkyard one in that color probably isn’t very expensive, though I don’t know how tricky removal and installation would be.

E92M3 > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 11:56

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Ouch! Sorry man. This happened to a friend of mines car a few years ago. I vowed to never put a basketball goal in the driveway after seeing what it did to his. Like yours, it couldn’t of landed on a fender or hood, someth ing easy to replace. H is hit the C- pillar.

ttyymmnn > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/14/2018 at 12:07

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It’s not beige--it’s champagne. TBH, I’m probably just going to leave it. I don’t expect to have the van for more than about three more years. After getting the transmi$$ion rebuilt recently, I’m not going to put too much more money into it. I hope.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 12/14/2018 at 12:08

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Living in TX has its pluses. I’m hoping to get three more years out of this vehicle. Even if it does rust, it won’t matter. It’ll just look bad.

ttyymmnn > facw 12/14/2018 at 12:09

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Yes, it could have been much, much worse. Last summer, the goal blew over while we were on vacation. Before we left, we moved my wife’s car to the other side of the driveway. The goal likely would have shattered the back window had the Civic been in its usual place. I just need to get rid of the damned goal. The boys don’t play on it any more.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 12:09

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It’s an old Odyssey.  You may have a little more trouble impressing the chicks with it, but not much.

ttyymmnn > E92M3 12/14/2018 at 12:10

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I’m just glad it didn’t take out the windshield.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 12/14/2018 at 12:11

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In that vehicle I am invisible anyway. This will soon become the kid beatermobile. My wife says that the boy should drive the Civic, but I’d much rather have him in this thing. If it gets wrecked (whether his fault or somebody else’s) it won’t be as much of a loss.

facw > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 12:11

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I recommend finding a matching Odyssey on Craigslist and then offering to trade the hoop for the fender. I hear people on CL love trades...

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 12:13

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Plus, with the folding seats and copious room in the rear, he will not be invisible to the chicks.

I probably shouldn’t have pointed that out.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 12:14

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$15 at the Honda dealer for a factory paint pen. It’ll at least keep any rust at bay and help cover the damage a wee bit.

I’m impressed you’ve gone that long. We have about 3 “medium substantial” dents and got them all in the first year. It was like a right of passage for driving such a fat car and trying to keep your normal parking lot habits from when you had a midsize car.

This morning I got rear ended for the first time in my life. Thankfully it was under 1mph and no damage. This is the third rear-ending. I have no idea why people keep hitting the Odyssey other than it’s so common, people literally don’t even see them as physical, opaque objects possessing mass.

Also: Bags of gravel on (or even inside) the base of the goal. You never have to wonder about the water leaking out since rocks don’t move around much.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 12/14/2018 at 12:16

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I was talking with Mrs. Ttyymmn this morning and said that our oldest should be driving the van. Besides, I said, it’s got a fold-down seat in the back. I got “the look.”

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 12/14/2018 at 12:17

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Ooh, gravel. Good idea. Still, I’m probably going to get rid of the goal. The boys don’t use it, and it just looks trashy in front of the house. 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 12:19

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yeah it’s probably not worth it. I would scrap off any fla ke s and hit the exposed steel with some rust converter.

We got a big rock ship on my wife’s Fit a few years ago and that’s what I did. Now it has a weird black spot but that’ s better than a growing rust spot. I don’t remember the brand I used, but it came out like a white paste. something like this.   https://www.amazon.com/GEMPLERS-Eco-Friendly-Rust-Converter-Primer/dp/B01MT7C4K3/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1544807924&sr=8-7&keywords=rust+converter

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 12:21

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Ha!  She knows the score.

ttyymmnn > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/14/2018 at 12:22

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Thanks. Living in TX, I don’t think we’ll have that much to worry about. But better safe than sorry.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > facw 12/14/2018 at 12:25

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thats crazy enough to work lol

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 12:33

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Bummer! How long before surface rust? I dunno, a few months maybe. How long before it makes a hole? In Texas, it’ll be in the junkyard long before that happens.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 12/14/2018 at 12:53

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She knows me.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 12/14/2018 at 12:54

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That’s what I’m thinking. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 13:11

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I imagine that Mrs. Ttyymmnn is an assassin with the Look.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 13:15

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I’ve never admitted this to anyone: when I was working on that goal, it damn near did the same thing, but no harm, no foul. Before I’d refilled the base. My thought at the time was, “That would not have ended well.”

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 13:32

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Monkey B > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 18:05

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if there is metal exposed it will start rusting almost immediately. Sometimes the paint will chip but the factory primer is still protecting it to a degree....that eventually breaks down.

There are companies that sell prepainted fenders, bumpers and other parts that are reasonable. One site I looked at was around $225 for a painted Odyssey fender. I know a PDR guy that would get them for customers sometimes if the damage was too much for him to repair. You’ll rarely get a perfect match(especially with that gold) but it beats looking at the damage or spending $5-600 at a body shop.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 12/14/2018 at 18:40

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Don’t use gravel. It’s really hard to get it back out of the base. Also, don’t put a bag of gravel on top of the plastic base. You’ll end up cracking it like I did.

Instead, buy two dog anchors and either wire or some chain. The anchors I used on our portable goal look like a piece of angle iron with a chain welded to the top and a hinges piece at the bottom that flip out 90 degrees if the stake is pulled upward. Hammer it in, the pull up on the chain to set the anchor.

I installed these after the truck was dented when our goal fell over. We had a big storm come through after I anchored the goal. Out of all the goals in the neighborhood, ours was the only one still standing. 

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/14/2018 at 21:50

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This one sits on the driveway, in front of the garage. Nowhere to put the anchors in. The best solution is to get rid of the goal. They don’t use it any more.

ttyymmnn > Monkey B 12/14/2018 at 21:51

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Thanks, but I’m really not worried about it. This is a 15-year-old van, and I don’t expect to keep it for more than three more years. I can live with it.